Those skath leaders and similar monster types with combat ratings in the 80s and 100s are supposed to be high level boss monsters that are erroneously spawning with the level 1 monsters with 9-20 combat ratings. Keep in mind it's the normal skaths that have low stats, the skath leaders show ridiculous stats from the start. Don't attack the wrong one. And yes at leeboy, the lizard things are called skaths.
[quote who="Ron Lugge" reply="6" id="2651107"] It's not a tetris 'minigame', it's a rather sensible restriction. Your city has to be one contiguous block.[/quote] Several buildings (lumber mill, fishery) don't follow those rules, and for the ones that do it really is like a tetris minigame as you find a way to snake your city out to the resource you want. I have cities with a single wide string of 1x1 buildings that stretches out far from the city until it touches a mine
I'm pretty sure I had given one sovereign a movement book, and noticed some time later she only had a move of 1, so I guess this explains it.
I've been (not >_>) seeing a lot of invisible units of all kinds. Sometimes they stay invisible, sometimes they pop in and out of visibility, and sometimes they are only invisible when they move.
I'm finding that certain research items have far too big an impact on the game to be ignored in both trees. For example without the ability to create markets (the 4 tile buildings that give like 6 gold per turn) you really don't have enough gold to do anything, and without certain equipment breakthroughs your units (and cities) are completely helpless. Those are just two specific examples, basically I'm finding that all around you need to go heavy into both civ and war research at a mostly eq
I'm seeing the same thing, though I wasn't paying attention to when it happened and the one squad I built was wiped out instantly at some point.
I chose not to save him when I got to the cave and got a free sword (10 dmg), and then I received the popup telling me I successfully saved the knight and completed the quest twice in a row.
I said possible, not probable, though is has become a somewhat common practice from other developers. Also, budget limits are hit, sometimes devs really want to make something special and need extra money to accomplish it. What I proposed would make a lot of sense in that situation.
I think it's possible they were never planning for an August release. Throwing that date out there as well as implementing the Army system most likely got many people to preorder over the past week or so, and once beta 2 starts all of those people will be charged and gain access. This could be a huge burst of funding allowing the devs to continue working on the game until February without budget issues. I don't mean to say they were trying to trick us or anything negative, as we will
Ya, not looking like I'll be playing it this morning. I leave in 3 hours though and will be gone 10, so hopefully it will be up when I get home. I'll still keep checking until I leave though. [e digicons]8|[/e] At the very least it would be nice to download it while I was away, so would be cool if they put it up around 7 EST. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]
[quote who="Sir_Linque" reply="138" id="2647518"]Also, making cells continue to be able to split would probably just lead to uncontrolled events and quite possibly death. There's a reason why not all cells are stem cells. As G3mpi3 mentioned, you only have to look at cancer to find the reason out.[/quote] My understanding of it is that aging is the result of our cells no longer being able to split and thus slowly dying off throughout the body. When a cell splits, a little piece of the
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="26" id="2647398"]It's just a new skin over an old game.[/quote] Speaking of skins, it's actually funny because for a while in beta STO used the same exact UI as Champions. There were even UI elements and buttons you could click on that did nothing because they were for CO features, they didn't fix it until a few days before the game went live. Even at release a lot of the game options didn't work because they were for things not even in the game, and functio
I was actually hoping PE would fail because I was really looking forward to Gods and Heroes (I'm glad somebody revived it), and when they canned that to focus on STO I was very upset. At the time I thought it was good news Cryptic picked it up from them, but ya... I've not played JG but I've been following JGE for what seems like forever. EVE is more a MMOSim, I wouldn't really call it an RPG, where JGE sounds like it's going to be much closer to normal MMORPGs. I dunno
To those still confused by the stack comment, think of it like Age of Wonders instead of Civilization/FFH. I imagine the tactical battles will be very similar to the ones in the AoW games. So imagine that sort of battle going on behind the scenes when you clash with another army.
[quote who="thetraviler" reply="18" id="2646434"]Do you think there is any chance of them reworking it, or possibly seeing it off for another company to rework? Or do you think its just dead?[/quote] I missed this. STO already went through 2 other dev studios IIRC. I know one of them (I think the second one) was Perpetual Entertainment who got pretty far along in development before they were shut down. Cryptic then bought the rights for the game and essentially scrapped everythi
[quote who="PoPsuX" reply="37" id="2647171"] You should get an iPod and follow Stardock on twitter.. That way you wouldn't have to get out of bed to check for updates. You can just take a quick peek on your tweeter on the iPod and they would probably post it for sure that the beta is out Just my suggestion [/quote] I believe every modern phone has access to twitter, I know my chocolate touch does, but I despise the modern "social networking" sites and would never use them. [e d
[quote who="alway" reply="51" id="2646868"]Ah, I was talking about this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Warwick#Project_Cyborg Although I guess it was in his arm, rather than his brain.[/quote] That's who I was talking about as well. The first chip was in his arm, but then he had neural interface built and implanted in his brain I believe that allowed him to control the arm over the internet among other things. I wasn't aware of the next step involving his wife, tha
[quote who="G3mpi3" reply="129" id="2647146"]Stopping aging would be the worst mistake humans could make........unless we leave this planet. We are already overpopulated, stopping aging or allowing endless life would be torture for anyone who lives on this crowded, barren, stressed out planet.[/quote] It's going to happen anyway. It's probably one of the easier things we could do with our DNA too. It's just a matter of adding extra material to our DNA so it can continue to split
Is it safe to assume that if it's not up in the next 4-5 hours then it's not going to be up until tomorrow morning at the earliest? Just wondering if a 3am EST release is even possible. [e digicons]8|[/e] I'll be up all night anyway, I have work early in the morning, just wondering if I should continue checking my email and the website every few minutes all night long. [e digicons]:-"[/e]
I'd guess saying "within 24 hours" means they aren't sure if they will get it up tonight or tomorrow morning.
Yay! I guess I'll probably be pulling an all nighter.
What time would they normally release a beta or news of it not coming? It's already getting late in the day EST.
[quote who="caross73" reply="44" id="2646711"]Natural gas is a byproduct of oil drilling, and also limited.[/quote] It is, but most of the natural gas from oil wells is burned off at the site since they aren't interested in moving it to where it needs to be sold. We get natural gas from natural gas wells, it's a different resource and while limited we still have a lot left. It's also mostly just methane, and there are extremely vast frozen methane deposits all over th
[quote who="Tridus" reply="17" id="2646272"]But Cryptic isn't exactly a top tier MMO developer. They churn out games quickly, milk it for a while, then move on.[/quote] Only the new Cryptic. CoH is actually a great game and Cryptic supported it for a long time and sunk a lot of resources into making it better in every way. When they sold the game to NCsoft most of the people with any sort of skill or moral standards stayed behind and formed Paragon Studios. This new Cry
[quote who="joasoze" reply="6" id="2646209"]I have heard bad things about this game on the forum of Kings Bounty. Still I would say that this reviewer is rather strange. He doesent like that the battles are similar to Kings Bounty and he loves the Disicples II battles. I have played both and he must be overwhelmed by nostalgia. The battles of Disicples II are very old fashioned and simple and if used in a game today would be scorned in my opinion. Kings Bounty has the best turn based battles